GordonsGuide.com Wins Travel Web Site Award

FRESNO, Calif. -- Gordon's Guide, the leading publisher of adventure and active travel, announced that the W3 Awards has recognized its Web site, http://www.GordonsGuide.com, with a Silver Award for outstanding Web site in the travel category.

The W3 Awards competition is a highly-respected, worldwide contest that
honors Web sites embodying a high standard of excellence. Each year,
winners are selected by the International Academy of the Visual Arts
(IAVA), top-tier professionals from a "Who's Who" of acclaimed media,
interactive, advertising, and marketing firms. IAVA evaluates Web sites on
the following criteria: creativity, usability, navigation, functionality,
visual design, and ease-of-use.

Launched nearly 10 years ago, GordonsGuide.com
(http://www.GordonsGuide.com) is the largest Web site on adventure and
active travel with 10,000 trips to 3,000 destinations in 126 countries. The
site represents more than 1,200 vacation providers across 79 categories --
the widest range of adventure and active travel options on the Internet.
Categories include Archeological Tours, Ecotourism, Culinary Vacations,
Safaris, Dude Ranches, Heli-Skiing, Houseboat Rentals, Surfing Camps,
Whitewater Rafting and four and five-star resorts and unique retreats
worldwide. For those that want special interest travel, there are
categories like Family Camps, Women's Travel, Storm Chasing, Sports and
Fitness Camps, Fantasy Camps and Racing Schools, to name some of the 79 unique categories.

"We are honored to be recognized as an outstanding Travel Web site,"
said Timothy E. Gordon, founder and CEO. "We have worked hard to create an easy-to-use, information-rich Web site for travelers to research, plan and book their vacations. The recognition from the W3 Awards and the International Academy of the Visual Arts validates our efforts to create a great user experience for consumers looking for adventure and active travel."

The W3 Awards honors creative excellence on the Web and recognizes the
creative and marketing professionals behind award-winning sites, marketing programs, and video created for the Internet. This year the W3 Awards received more than 2,700 entries from Ad Agencies, Public Relations Firms, Interactive Agencies, In-house creative professionals, Web Designers and Graphic Designers representing companies such as Gucci, BBC, Maserati, Reebok, Nike, and Abercrombie and Fitch, and Royal Caribbean, to name a few.

About Gordon's Guide
10,000 Trips, 3,000 Destinations, 126 Countries - 1 Web Site Founded in
1997, Gordon's Guide - Adventure & Active Travel Worldwide is a leading
publishing company based in Fresno, California. The company publishes
highly regarded magazine-style travel guides and an award-winning Web site, http://www.GordonsGuide.com, the premier information and largest online resource for active travelers, offering the finest adventure and active vacations from around the world. Gordon's Guide has partnered with premier vacation providers and resorts such as O.A.R.S., GAP Adventures, Dean Cummings H2O Heli Guides, Intrepid Travel, Backroads, Fairmont, Vail Resorts, Hilton Caribbean, Forever Resorts, Intrawest, ARAMARK Parks and Resorts and Delaware North. Forbes Magazine has awarded GordonsGuide.com "Best of the Web" eight straight years.

SOURCE Gordon's Guide